Writer: Andrew Lang (page 2)

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1912 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition. Tales of Troy by Andrew Lang TALES OF TROY: ULYSSES THE SACKER OF CITIES Contents: The Boyhood and Parents of Ulysses How People Lived in the Time of Ulysses The Wooing of Helen of the Fair Hands The

This etext was prepared from the 1885 Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Rhymes a la Mode BALLADE DEDICATORY–TO MRS. ELTON OF WHITE STAUNTON The painted Briton built his mound, And left his celts and clay, On yon fair slope of sunlit ground That fronts your garden gay; The Roman

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1922 Seeley, Service & Co. Ltd. edition. OXFORD by Andrew Lang PREFACE These papers do not profess even to sketch the outlines of a history of Oxford. They are merely records of the impressions made by this or that aspect of the life of

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1890 Longmans, Green, and Co. edition. OLD FRIENDS PREFACE The studies in this volume originally appeared in the “St. James’s Gazette.” Two, from a friendly hand, have been omitted here by the author of the rest, as non sua poma. One was by Mr.

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1905 Longmans, Green and Co. edition. New Collected Rhymes by Andrew Lang Contents: Preface In Augustinum Dobson Loyal Lyrics How the Maid Marched from Blois Lone Places of the Deer An Old Song Jacobite “Auld Lang Syne” The Prince’s Birthday The Tenth of June,

This etext was prepared by Donald Lainson, charlie@idirect.com. MYTH, RITUAL, AND RELIGION by Andrew Lang Volume One CONTENTS PREFACE TO NEW IMPRESSION. PREFACE TO NEW EDITION. CHAPTER I. — SYSTEMS OF MYTHOLOGY. Definitions of religion–Contradictory evidence–“Belief in spiritual beings”–Objection to Mr. Tylor’s definition–Definition as regards this argument–Problem: the contradiction between religion and myth–Two human moods–Examples–Case

This etext was prepared by A Elizabeth Warren MD, Sacramento, CA; aewarren2@aol.com LETTERS TO DEAD AUTHORS by Andrew Lang Contents. I. to W. M. Thackeray II. To Charles Dickens III. To Pierre De Ronsard IV. To Herodotus V. Epistle to Mr. Alexander Pope VI. To Lucian of Samosata VII. To Maitre Francoys Rabelais VIII. To

This etext was prepared from the 1892 Longmans, Green and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk Letters on Literature Contents: Introductory: Of Modern English Poetry Of Modern English Poetry Fielding Longfellow A Friend of Keats On Virgil Aucassin and Nicolette Plotinus (A.D. 200-262) Lucretius To a Young American Book-Hunter Rochefoucauld Of Vers de Societe

This etext was prepared by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk from the 1890 Field and Tuer edition. HOW TO FAIL IN LITERATURE: A LECTURE BY ANDREW LANG PREFACE This Lecture was delivered at the South Kensington Museum, in aid of the College for Working Men and Women. As the Publishers, perhaps erroneously, believe that some of

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This etext was produced from the 1882 George Bell and Sons edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk HELEN OF TROY by Andrew Lang “Le joyeulx temps passe souloit estre occasion que je faisoie de plaisants diz et gracieuses chanconnetes et ballades. Mais je me suis mis a faire cette traittie d’affliction contre ma droite nature